Hybrid system having multiple downlink channels and a single uplink channel

1. A system comprising:

a centralized synchronizing communication controller, a shared signal wired distribution line, a first hybrid converter, and a second hybrid converter, wherein the centralized synchronizing communication controller is used for transmitting downlink signals over the shared signal wired distribution line, to the first and the second hybrid converters, via a first downlink channel using a first frequency and via a second downlink channel using a second frequency;

wherein the first hybrid converter is used for communicating with a first wireless client via the air using a third frequency;

wherein the second hybrid converter is used for communicating with a second wireless client via the air using a fourth frequency;

wherein the first and the second hybrid converters transmit to the centralized synchronizing communication controller, via an uplink channel using a fifth frequency, a superpositioned uplink signal received from the first and the second wireless clients; wherein the superpositioned uplink signal having the fifth frequency is a superposition of the fifth frequency signal coming from the first hybrid converter and the fifth frequency signal coming from the second hybrid converter;

wherein the centralized synchronizing communication controller achieves wireless clients synchronization and bandwidth allocations by simultaneously managing the first and the second downlink channels and the uplink channel; and whereby the uplink signals and the downlink signals are modulated using orthogonal multi-carrier modulation.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first hybrid converter filters the downlink signal before transmitting the first downlink channel using the third frequency.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the third and fourth frequencies are identical.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system comprises a first number of downlink channels, a second number of uplink channels, and the first number is bigger than the second number.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the shared signal wired distribution line is selected from the group of twisted pair, coax, fiber optics, and a combination thereof.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the orthogonal multi-carrier modulation is an OFDM or an OFDMA modulation.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the centralized synchronizing communication controller further comprises a MAC used by an IEEE 802.16 orthogonal multi carrier modulation.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the wireless clients are standard IEEE 802.16 orthogonal multi carrier modulation mobile clients.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first and the second hybrid converters have at least partially overlapping coverage areas and the first wireless client is located in the overlapping coverage area.

10. A method for communicating with a first and a second wireless clients, comprising:

centrally allocating bandwidth to, and synchronizing communications with, a first and a second wireless clients;

transmitting, over a shared signal wired distribution line, a first downlink signal transported over a first frequency, a second downlink signal transported over a second frequency, and an uplink signal transported over a fifth frequency;

converting the frequency of the first downlink signal to a third frequency, and bi-directionally wirelessly communicating with a first wireless client over the third frequency;

converting the frequency of the second downlink signal to a fourth frequency, and bi-directionally wirelessly communicating with a second wireless client over the fourth frequency;

converting and superpositioning a first received wireless uplink signal having the third frequency and a second received wireless uplink signal having the fourth frequency to the uplink signal that is transmitted over the shared signal wired distribution line using the fifth frequency.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the step of converting and superpositioning the first and the second received wireless uplink signals to the uplink signal having the fifth frequency is performed by using a first and a second hybrid converters, respectively.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the uplink signal is a combined signal resulting from a superpositioning of the fifth frequency signal coming from the first hybrid converter, and the fifth frequency signal coming from the second hybrid converter.

13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising the steps of converting the first frequency of the first downlink signal to the third frequency by using the first hybrid converter; and converting the second frequency of the second downlink signal to the fourth frequency by using the second hybrid converter.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the first and the second hybrid converters have at least partially overlapping coverage areas and the first wireless client is located in the overlapping coverage area.

15. The method of claim 10 , further comprising modulating the signals by an OFDM modulation or an OFDMA modulation.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the step of centrally allocating bandwidth and synchronizing communications comprises the use of a MAC used by an IEEE 802.16 orthogonal multi carrier modulation.

17. The method of claim 10 , wherein the wireless clients are standard IEEE 802.16 orthogonal multi carrier modulation mobile clients.

18. The method of claim 10 , further comprising modulating the first received wireless uplink signal and the second received wireless uplink signal by an OFDMA modulation, and using for each of the signals an amount of sub-channels that is smaller than the entire composition of the OFDMA channel.

19. The method of claim 10 , further comprising modulating the first received wireless uplink signal and the second received wireless uplink signal by an OFDMA modulation and using one sub-channel for each of the signals.